Mr. Speaker, when he was the environment critic in 1991, today's finance minister said “I unconditionally support the principle of the environmental assessment legislation in Canada”. I guess he just does not support the practice. He then went on to say “The environmental assessment process in this country must not be open to political manipulation”. If selling nuclear reactors to other countries without environmental assessment is not political manipulation of assessment laws, what is political manipulation?
In the House of Commons on November 5th, 1997. See this statement in context.